When our ancestors were brought to the Americas from West Afrika as slaves, they were not one people. They were members of many different tribal nations. They were Wolof, Mandinka, Mende, Akan, Ewe, Fon, Yoruba, Igbo, Bakongo, Mbundu, etc. Each … Read the rest
The call came
Late in the morning
While Amerika was yawning
Palestine was mourning
Thousands dead
In atrocious attacks
As the world protests
Like the invasion of Iraq
In 2003
This is 20 years since
No weapons of mass destruction… Read the rest
Under racist systems of control the oppressed are either the minority or the majority. Where they are the minority, as were Blacks in Amerika under chattel slavery and Jim Crow, the oppressor race is armed and mobilized to … Read the rest
On March 23, 2024 the Virginia legislature passed a new law restricting the use and duration of solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. (1) This law was enacted in response to years of public protest against Virginia’s … Read the rest
Virginia officials have always tried to hide what happens inside their prisons from the public. Especially the abuse. 50 years ago in a lawsuit against inhumane conditions at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond, Va, … Read the rest
Consider this: In the dead of night while you and your kids are sleeping in bed, a uniformed cop breaks out your back window, crawls inside, creeps into your kids’ room and when … Read the rest
I had an experience that illustrated for me just how psychotic these right-wing military types are. The ones who work in rural prisons and police forces in particular. The fearful thing about all this is that these nuts are armed … Read the rest
On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, several prisoners confined at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the continued use of long-term solitary confinement within the institution.Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in … Read the rest
There was much fanfare about a new Virginia law that went into effect on Mach 23, 2023 that set specific limits on the use of solitary confinement in Virginia prisons. (1) Long before this law was enacted Va prison officials … Read the rest